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  1. Warsaw Rebuilds

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 470, Part 3. Release date, 01/21/1946. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Rebuilding Warsaw" Warsaw, Poland. Citizens of this war-ravaged city bend their backs to the staggering task of digging their homes out of the rubble, and rebuilding Warsaw to its former splendor. Aerial shots of bombed out city. Reconstruction. MS people strolling along street/park lane. Child picking flower in park. "These children have no [knowledge of] brutality of war." (narration) Man pushing baby carriage. City street scene. Women with children, walking down stree...

  2. Decision Board Trial: Fritz Kuhn

    Decision Board Trial - Fritz Kuhn, Munich, Germany, February 14, 1949. MSs, CUs, Fritz Kuhn sitting in courtroom, looking at papers, talking to counsel. CU, book "Under Cover" by John Roy Carlson. MS, Kuhn seated at table talking to court. CU, prosecutor. Cut-ins, people in courtroom. CU, German papers with headlines. CU, article showing Bundsfuehrer Fritz Kuhn in San Francisco. Reporters in courtroom taking notes. Periodicals showing pictures of Kuhn at Bund meetings in America. MS, witness for prosecution, Mr. Wiedemann, former Consul General in San Francisco. MS, witness Mr. Krott, Ribbe...

  4. Dodd speaks of mistreatment of Poles at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 436) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 11, 1945. LS, court rises as judges enter and take their places. Rear views only, Thomas J. Dodd, US prosecution counsel, talking to the Tribunal states in part, "...some of the punishment consists of starvation, such punishment results in the workers fainting. Spreading of tuberculosis among the Polish workers is the result of insufficient food rations given out in the camp..." Dodd continues his address telling of the mistreatment, starvation, and disease brought on by adverse conditions in the labor camps of Poland. Pan to priso...

  5. Prof. Leo van der Essen at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 541) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 4, 1946. LS, prisoners' dock. Pan to French prosecutor Faure questioning Professor Leo van der Essen, General Secretary of the Louvain University in Belgium. (French is spoken throughout the entire reel.)

  6. Questioning former SA; Shawcross' summation at Nuremberg Trial

    13:37:59 (Munich 357) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 15, 1946. Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, Deputy Chief British Prosecutor, questioning Max Guettner, former SA official. 13:41:39 (Munich 327) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 29-30, 1946. Sir Hartley Shawcross summing up for the British prosecution. MS, members of the Russian prosecution at table. MS, Thomas J. Dodd and Robert H. Jackson at table.13:43:23 Camera in shot. MS, Justice Francis Biddle and Justice John J. Parker at bench.

  7. German invasion of Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine

    Ravine. German soldiers in a ravine. LS of a country road. Very poor quality, high contrast image with MLS of a large group of people moving forward. CU, German soldier smoking. Russian narration at end of story: A woman is speaking: "When we have entered..."

  8. Hitler youth; Nazi officials; Invading Leningrad

    Reel 1: Hitler Youth do farm work to support German war effort. MS boys with scout caps on, farming in a field. MS, lugging bags over shoulders. CU, smiling boys snacking. MS, girls. CU, young woman crouched in field, feeding hens. Two women herding geese. CU, milking a cow. CU, helping piglets nurse (holding in arms). Boys on tractor, carrying hay, (teens) to haystack. Women standing in truckbed and on ground, stabbing hay, petting horse. Women walking arm in arm. Hitler Youth take summer vacation at Oste River. Shirtless boys all seated outside at picnic tables, assembling planes. CU, fri...

  9. Streicher testifies and prosecutors at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 133) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 30, 1946. HAS, MS, Dr. Hans Marx at lectern. Julius Streicher is heard (but not seen) testifying. HAS, prisoners accompanied by MPs taking their places in the dock. MS, Robert H. Jackson and Thomas J. Dodd at the prosecution table. Pan, members of Russian staff at table. MS, Justices Robert Falco and Henri Donnedieu de Vabre. Pan courtroom, Dr. Rudolf Dix at lectern. LS, Streicher testifying.

  10. World War I scenes

    Panning shot of destroyed buildings. People walking in the background. Soldiers wearing Prussian helmets run through a street. Some carry buckets and some are on horseback. Soldiers ride their horses up to a line of carts, to which they hitch the horses. Men in civilian clothes walk down a street. Some carry bundles. They are accompanined/guarded by soldiers and uniformed men wearing armbands with crosses (medical personnel). Soldiers look at trenches (from bombs?). Several horse-drawn carts bearing cross banners ride down a road. LS of soldiers running across a barren field. Some of them d...

  11. Communist female prisoner and other doctors testify at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 528) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 28, 1946. Dr. Hans Marx, defense counselor, questions Marie-Claude Vaillant Couturier. His questions are in German and answered in French. Dr. Marx asks the witness if her testimony is based on how she personally experienced things. She answers that it is based on her personal experience but has been confirmed through others. 08:02:50 Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence asks the defense counselors if any others wish to question the witness. LS, MS two witnesses, Dr. Jean Weith and Dr. Vic Dupont. 08:04:08 Dr. Weith enters the witness box...

  12. DP camp in Austria

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 539, Part 4. Release date, 09/19/1946. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Displaced Persons Camp" Upper Austria. Fifteen hundred refugees of Jewish descent live in this UNRRA sponsored camp at Admont, dreaming of the day when they can go to Palestine. They raise most of the food they eat. Men walk under sign (in Hebrew) with hoes and shovels on shoulders. LS countryside. Beautiful mountains. Young men and women in shorts hoeing. Two women outside washing clothes in tub. Four men walking together. CUs, children in pasture with women playing by ...

  13. Kaufbeuren Bezirkskrankenhaus: Individual case files

    381 individual case files from the psychiatric hospital in Kaufbeuren from the time period of Operation T4.

  14. Jewish folk dance performed by Ukrainian State Folk Dance Troupe

    "Soviet Ukraine"- Release 43. Intertitle: "The Ukrainian State Folk Dance Troupe is performing." Four Ukrainian couples performing Jewish folk dance; they are members of the official Ukrainian State Folk Dance Troupe. VS, group of young men and women performing traditional folk songs and dances for a large crowd. Shots alternate between the performers and the crowd cheering. Part of this story takes place in the small Ukrainian village of Dykan'ka in the Poltava Region

  15. Testimonies of Zaglembia Survivors Original Polish-Language Documents with English Translations

    The collection contains reproductions and translations of testimonies of Holocaust survivors from Zaglembia (Zagłębie Dąbrowskie region of Poland). The testimonies are in two volumes and describe experiences in camps and ghettos, Jews in hiding, resistance efforts, death marches, and pre-war Jewish life. Additionally, there are pictures of Albrecht Schmelt and the “Schmelt Organization” who were responsible for administration of the ghettos, deportations, and concentration camps in the area. The collection was assembled by Amalie Mary Robinson and Pawel Brunon Dorman. Volume I contains test...

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Soldiers singing on Rhine River

    Official Motion Picture Release - Bureau of PR #1532. GI chorus on Rhine River, Germany. 102nd Infantry Div. HAS, German city with Rhine through its center. LS, excursion on boat at pier. River and countryside. LS, soldiers on ship singing American tunes. Beer stein.

  17. Hoess testifies at Nuremberg Trial; questioning Kaltenbrunner

    (Munich 105) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 15, 1946. Dr. Kurt Kaufman, Kaltenbrunner's counselor, questions Rudolf Hoess, the Camp Commandant of Auschwitz. CU, Hoess testifying. 18:13 MSs, Justices Birkett and Lawrence; Justices Biddle and Parker listening with earphones. 18:14 Col. John Amen of the US prosecution asks Kaltenbrunner, "Who was responsible for the deaths of all inmates in Mauthausen concentration camp?" Dr. Kaufman objects. 18:15:25 Justice Lawrence asks, "What is the point of delaying the trial? The application must be made in writing. You know perfectly well....

  19. Final pleas of Raeder & von Schirach at Nuremberg Trial and good candid shots

    22:36:05 (Munich 305) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 16, 1946 (German). MS, Capt. Otto Kranzbuehler, lawyer for Doenitz, reading his client's plea. LS, visitors in the press section. MLS, spectators, including Edwin W. Pauley. Walter Siemers speaking for his client Raeder. HAS, Goering in dock. HAS, Raeder sitting between Doenitz and von Schirach. 22:43:47 (Munich 310) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 17, 1946 (silent). H, MS, Fritz Sauter, lawyer for von Schirach, reading plea for his client. MS, von Schirach and Sauckel in dock as Sauter reads plea. MS, Goering, He...

  20. Yamashita Trial; Jackson and map at Nuremberg Trial

    22:44:35 Yamashita Trial, 20th Day, Manila, Philippines, November 21, 1945. Gen. Muto on stand answers in part the question: "Describe the military administration in the Philippines." 22:47:08 (Paris 374) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 22, 1945. LS, prisoners sitting in dock. Pan to US Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson speaking. Rear view, Jackson addressing the court. MS, Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Doenitz, Raeder, von Schirach, and Sauckel in prisoners' dock. Goering makes notes on pad. LS map on wall showing German aggression. Note: Voice of Jackson heard throug...